2.2 Character Sets

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Your system's support for a character set depends upon whether the appropriate codepage has been compiled into your
operating system kernel or if it is available as a module. So if you wish to display Russian Cyrillic characters:

your kernel needs to support the chosen codepage,

your terminal has to be able to render the characters, and

you need to change two settings in Links.

The first Links settings for character sets are accessed from your
Setup --> Character set submenu option.
Select the appropriate character set for your terminal, and press return or click it with a mouse.
Return to the Setup submenu and select or click on "Save
options" (or press the <ESC>-s-s key sequence).

For more information about setting your system's character set, see Linux terminal's setfont(8) or
consolechars(8). For the X Window System, the manpages xterm(1x), xfontsel(1x), xlsfonts(1x)
and the file <root>/fonts/misc/fonts.alias will be of use.

If you are not sure which character set to use, see the table below [2.2.2].
It has a short description
of each character set, along with links to web pages (in English) for more information.

The second Links settings is under the View --> Assume Character Set submenu option.
This option forces the display of web pages using a default (or "assumed") character set for
web pages which do not contain the element and attributes

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">,
where "ISO-8859-1" is the character set used by the author of the page.

Select again your preferred character set, and press enter or click. Return to the same submenu, and click / press
enter on the "Set default" option. Or more quickly, press this key sequence: <ESC>-v-a-d.